Untuk Ibu Tercinta...

Happy birthday to my mother, Wan Zaharah binti Megat Hashim...

Thank you for everything...

Everything that you have done for me since I was born...

Until now...

Until I become who I am today...

You are the gem of my heart...

I am strong today because of your strength in raising me up for the past 26 years...

I realize that your prayers have built the bridge to help me walk across all the challenges that come in my way to success...

I know that you will always pray for me and the rest of your children every day and night...

And I will always pray for you until the day I cannot breath anymore...

I pray to Allah to reward you with a good health...

To protect you from any harm, danger and anything that might brings you down...

I want you to be happy everyday...

Please keep praying for my success...as I can't wait to go back home and show you the success that I have gained...the success that should be awarded to you...

You are my Doctor of Philosophy...Doctorate in motherhood...

I hope you like the surprise that I have done for your birthday this year...

That was all I can do...We are thousands of miles apart...and the fact that I am about to enter the motherhood life in about 7 months from now limits my movement...

I hope that I can be as strong as you when I become a mother later...

Thank you very much Mom...

For everything....

Love for Mom...

p/s: Thank you to Kak Jun Cupcakekasih for making this lovely cake...You're the star Kak Jun!!...Thanks also to my brother, Syafiq for helping me to collect this cake...:-)..

Syukur..

Alhamdulillah...Syukur atas rezeki kurniaan-Nya...After being married for 1 year & 4 months, this is a gift from Allah S.W.T....My husband and I are ready for this new life...Syukur Allah S.W.T permudahkan...to be frank, mmg dah mula rasa perlunya ada org baru...:-)...At the age of 26, I feel dah smpai masanya...:-)..

Segalanya berlaku atas izin-Nya...Syukur...Semoga kami berdua kuat and sihat...Walaupun badan terasa lain sikit, tetap kena kuatkan semangat and gagahkan diri utk ke School...Alhamdulillah...so far belum ada 'morning sickness'...:-)...Tapi hari ni, dah mula rase nak mkn benda masam...hehehe...So I ate apple just now...and now feel slightly better...

I met the midwife last Thursday...and alhamdulillah, based on normal cycle calculation, I'm in 5 weeks of pregnancy...still very early...kena rehat byk...jalan slow2 ke school...Alhamdulillah, kekuatan masih diberikan oleh Allah S.W.T...:-)...InsyaAllah the due will be on 28th December 2010...:-)...Semoga semuanye dipermudahkan...

I aim to submit a 3-month Progress Report within this month...InsyaAllah...skrg ni dah nak siap...tinggal touch up sikit je...Syukur masih diberikan kekuatan utk siapkan keje...:-)...

OK...nmpk gaye mcm dah tumpul sikit skill menulis blog...kuikui...

Take care everyone...

Wassalam...

At Wales last 2 weeks...Dah pregnant waktu ni tanpa kusedari...:-)...

Miss Me??

Salam...hehe..title yg sungguh perasan...:p...I'm blogging again after a month abandoning this beloved blog...:-)..

Walaupun tak aktif kat sini, tapi saye sentiasa aktif di Facebook...ID: Nur 'Aliaa Abd Rahman...Lotsa update there...pictures, current status etc...Tak byk masa terluang utk update blog...but I really miss to post something here...so, ini je yg mampu...hehe...

I'm following my friends' blogs too..so friends, keep updating ya...since I'll be your silent reader..:-D...

Kepada Kak Maira and Kak Kimi, teruskan produce tudung yang lawa2 and mengancam k...Aliaa kat sini sentiasa mengikuti perkembangan anda...sambil stress2 bile tudung2 yg cun dirembat org...haha...best2...masih mcm dulu...bezanye dah tak aktif membeli...huhu...

Kepada Kak Jun, teruskan buat cake and cupcake yg gorgeous k...Aliaa tak sbr nak order kat Kak Jun lg...tungguuuu...3 years from now..InsyaAllah...:-D...

Okay, itu saje la pesanan ringkas kpd semua...Till then...Daa...:-D...

Me in London...in front of London Eye...

Me in Manchester...

Salam everybody...wahhh..it seems so long since my last entry...I really didn't have even a single chance to update this blog previously bcoz we still don't have internet at home...but today, I'll do it here at my postgraduate office...hehe...

It's been 2 weeks and 4 days since I arrived in Manchester...Alhamdulillah everything went well for me and my husband...eventhough there were slight problems last week, I hope everything will be OK soon...

I'm officially a postgraduate student at the School of Chemical Engineering and Analytical Science, The University of Manchester...once again as a student...but at a very different environment from what I used to have back in Malaysia...

I admit that I really miss Malaysia...my family, my friends and my workplace (UPM)...everything is so different here...but we're trying our best to suit ourselves to this new culture and environment...and so far, everything is great for us...we're learning and learning from zero...

These are some of the activities that we've done in the past 2 weeks until today:

• Stayed at our host 's place for a few days until we moved to our own house...

• Our house is located at 11, Brideoak Street, Cheetham Hill...

• We went to shop for necessities at Manchester Fort, Primark, Asda & Tesco...berjimat cermat membeli brg2 murah sbb masih tgh membiasakan diri dgn life kat sini...:-)...
  

• We had already registered for NHS which stands for National Health Insurance...that enables us to get medical treatment here...

• Take bus from Cheetham Hill to Manchester Piccadilly which takes about 10 mins...and then walk from Piccadilly to School for about 15 mins...mmg menyihatkan...tp skrg ni tgh winter, teramatla sejuknye...hehe...

• I met my PhD supervisor, Dr. Peter James Martin on 28th Jan...he is a very nice person...he introduced me to all the students under his supervision...and he took me to the laboratory where I'll be working in this very near future...hehe....and he took us for lunch on Friday...:-)...

• I met a few friends here...Helen, Vicky, Linda and James...they are all very nice and warm...looking forward to meeting more friends here...:-)...

• I also met a few Malaysian here...Abg Muammar & Kak Yati (who had helped us a lot), Kak Ucu, Pian (who is very nice to us since day 1)...
  

• It was snowing last Sunday..that was our first time ever to see snow in our life...syukur to Allah S.W.T..

• and finally, this morning hubby got the National Insurance (NI) number which entitles him to work legally here..hehe...

Alhamdulillah....OK, I've uploaded a few pics in my Facebook...but I'll upload some of them here later...I have a group meeting this evening at 3pm...James is going to present something about his work...and I'll do an introduction presentation next Tuesday...heeeee...need to prepare couple of slides this weekend...:-)...

Doakan kejayaan saya di sini...:-)...

Till then, bye2...

Wassalam...

It was snowing yesterday..on my way back from school...:-)..

Alhamdulillah...

Salam...just wanna inform that I've arrived safely in Manchester..Currently at my friend's place...after Zohor prayer, we'll be going to my house...and then have our lunch...and after that, shopping for necessities...I'll update later..

Thanks so much everyone for the doa...May Allah S.W.T. bless all of us...amin..(^_^)v...